A Human Polycystic Kidney (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

A Human Polycystic Kidney

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A human polycystic kidney can grow to the size of a regulation size football. A normal kidney is the size of a fist.

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Courtesy of the Indiana University School of Medicine - See more at: <a href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015527/delivering-drugs-right-place#sthash.Lfe8IEKm.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015527/delivering-drugs-right-place#sthash.Lfe8IEKm.dpuf</a>

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